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Pepsi To Release The Pepsi Perfect Bottle

When Pepsi managed to get its brand of sugar water in 1985’s classic Back to the Future II, it surely wasn’t anticipating being able to cash in on that product placement 30 years later. But that’s exactly what’s happening this month, as the company featured in Marty McFly’s fictional 2015 is releasing a real product […]

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Another iPad Pro Real Life Test

Jackie Dove at TheNextWeb was lucky enough to have a go with the iPad Pro at the AdobeMax conference. While the 12.9-inch iPad is much larger than the latest iPad Air 2, it’s first and foremost a creation device1. Most people in the room were trying it out as it lay flat on a table, […]

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The VFX Of The Martian

Ian Failes, reporting for fxguide In this article, brought together from interviews by Mike Seymour and Ian Failes, fxguide delves into the effects work with the key players, including Stammers who was the overall visual effects supervisor and aided on the production by VFX shoot supervisor Matt Sloan. MPC handled Mars surface shots, Framestore worked […]

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Where’s My Revolution?

Jason Snell over at Sixcolors.com So, iOS 9 scorecard. I’m not using Split View and Slide Over enough, and I need to figure out ways to use it to my advantage. And I keep using 3D Touch in third-party apps on the iPhone 6S to no avail. Good analysis of the current status of third-party […]

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Behind The Scene Of The Martian

A very nice and in-depth discussion between Andy Weir (the author of The Martian) and Adam Savage (of Mythbuster fame) about how The Martian came to be, including the crazy accurate math.   Well worth the 55 minutes run.  

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